Any road, I want to start the weekend by turning the thread title on its head, instead of SMALL HOPE for... I'd like to think about the joint Arab-Jewish classes where the kids were interviewed by someone reporting to NPR. The kids covered Arabs, Palestinians, Christians, Muslims and Jews who've been able to get along and their parents have continued to send them to learn together even through recent events.
So there is s*m*a*l*l*H*O*P*E that from a seed of humans seeing other humans AS humans in this period of Ramadan, the Sabbath, and the comparatively low casualty counts so far in Palestine/Israel (as compared to Darfur, as compared to Cairo, Sinai, Baghdad, Damascus, Afghanistan, Pakiston), that something can grow, however stunted at first, and find a trellis.

...after all, even the Federation and the Klingon Empire eventually got along...